On July 17, Japan’s Cabinet adopted the 2020 Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform (honebuto). Its initial text suggested the government’s position to carry out its first off-year drug price revision next April as well as its…
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2020 Policy Blueprint Restresses Efforts on COVID-19 Meds/Vaccines; Drug Price Survey Up for Discussion on July 22
The Japanese government renewed its call for accelerating the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and repatriating drug manufacturing to Japan in the wake of the novel virus pandemic in its annual policy blueprint adopted on July 17. In the…
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